Genome Project Ethics Office Is Achieving New Prominence In National Policy Debates
Sidebar:Active and Recently Completed NIH ELSI Research Projects With passage of time and increasing political relevance, HGP branch's influence is on the rise among decision-makers Beginning this year, the component of the United States human genome initiative that has been sponsoring studies of the ethical, legal, and social implications of the massive genome effort's ground-breaking research will be reporting the first hard resul
Oct 2, 1994
Sidebar:Active and Recently Completed NIH ELSI Research Projects
With passage of time and increasing political relevance, HGP branch's influence is on the rise among decision-makers |
This is welcome news for some scientists, members of Congress, and others who have criticized the programUs general lack of effectiveness in the past, demanding more solid returns on ELSI spending--approximately $20 million, so far.
ELSI has been part of the Human Genome Project (HGP) since...
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